LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Las Vegas valley’s airports basic aviation director didn’t reply questions on an alleged battle of curiosity to a significant gas firm, as an alternative cancelling a public assembly and fleeing from pilot’s questions.
Pilots and tenants from Henderson Worldwide Airport and North Las Vegas Airport attended a tenant assembly led by Ben Czyzewski, managing director of basic aviation, who can also be on the board of Air Elite, and group partnered with a significant worldwide gas firm. Accusations rose of his ties to each the private and non-private pursuits, however Czyzewski left with out answering as soon as 8 Information Now arrived.
Czyzewski can also be on the middle of a evaluation by the Clark County Fee after the delaying of a vote right into a gas charge change. Commissioner April Becker expressed issues on the allegations raised and despatched a written authorization to eight Information Now to attend the assembly, after media was requested to go away at North Las Vegas Airport.
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“I can’t make heads or tails, other than we’re not a free country anymore.” Susan Newton, a tenant at Henderson Government Airport, stated. “The press came into this meeting immediately. The people up front left, and then they canceled the meeting. So, there’s something really wrong here. I was on the board of an airport authority back in Pennsylvania for seven years. We always had open meetings.”
Pilots and tenants from Henderson Worldwide Airport and North Las Vegas Airport have been outraged when a tenant assembly led by Ben Czyzewski, managing director of basic aviation, was instantly canceled on Aug. 21, 2025. (KLAS)
A spokesperson for Clark County Division of Aviation stated the assembly was canceled after they stated the assembly now not had a majority of Henderson tenants within the room, slightly extra North Las Vegas airport tenants. The cancellation coincided with 8 Information Now offering the spokesperson Becker’s written discover to attend.
“I am a tenant of both Nevada and Henderson, so it was kind of surprising to me,” Tinielle Cassity stated. “Because I hadn’t heard too much of what was going on until today and yesterday but first thing that happened was media was kicked out, but [Czyzewski] says it’s a public meeting, so that was kind of odd to us.”
Cassity stated the assembly confirmed that the members of basic aviation could be shedding their hangars, including their was a point out of funds cuts.
“We’re already losing our hangars, so that’s what we’re trying to figure out, is like, why it’s already happening when it’s a 30-year, 20-year plan on the master plan,” she stated.
The tenant homeowners, which included former judges, attorneys, and LVMPD workers, started to precise outrage on the conferences cancellation and probability their hangars could be misplaced with out compensation.
“As a matter of fact, we’re getting ready to pen a letter to all of the commissioners where the hanger owner group wants to meet with them, because there’s quite a list of problems that we have,” Larry Joslyn, one of many North Las Vegas Airport hangar group managers, stated.
Joslyn stated he had questions of improper eviction and termination of leases, unlawful breaking and coming into in hangars, the alleged refusal from the county division to permit illustration on behalf of an proprietor.
“That’s just the beginning of it,” Joslyn stated. “But they have also changed the terminology on leases. When there is an assignment assumption where you go to sell your hanger to someone else, they’re changing the terminology where the original lease, which is still valid and in effect.”
A county division spokesperson stated the assembly could be rescheduled as a “closed door tenant meeting” and a date had not but been decided. The Clark County Board of Commissioners continues to be reviewing claims of a battle of curiosity by Czyzewski.
